Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1927, Page 17

' MRS. GRAYSON M 'LANTIC FLYER at Boston of Mrs. Frances (-ra\mn. who say: attempt to fly the Atlantic started speculation that he ni Pilot Wilmer' Stultz W REUCORD FOR HUDSON RIVER SWIM. is shown here just after completing in the » h ( for the projec with the flight, t by Unde George Greegan at the Battery his 10-day swim from A’bany to New York. His swimming time of 50 hours and 6 minutes beiiered both that of Mrs. Lottie Schommel and the Zittenfeld tw (Wide World Photos) WESLEY HEIGHTS YOUNGSTERS E roup of happy celebrators at the community party Saturday ev costumes are worn by this g Wesley Heights clubhous ently S( HO()L CHILDREN GREET PRINCE OF \\ at Britain's heir apparent among t ration, it was given on his dfllnml r ool. The Prince is sho A g ood time had by all. JOY HALLOWEEN PARTY. All the old and new styles in Halloween ning at the Washington Star Photo. Miss Alice Brooks Davi: of the Sec ew York on the liner Beren- after a lo y abroad to attend school in Copyr Photos. 5 SISTER TO WED Russian, The Europe. of Schaumburg-Lippe, 61-year- engagement has created YOUNG RUSSIAN. Princess Vie- old sister of former Emperor Wil interest throughout & A. Photos.) much (Copyright by . r day nter of the adm 1f the popularity ng generation needs any to this Meyric d & Underwood.) GROWING Hallwood, Va, his patch the other day at Richmond to be entere the world's longest tuber. sent it on the POTATOES BY THE YARD. found this sweet potato, measuring 4 feet 6 inches, in ‘When Samuel B. Groton of uthorities ved to be ultural is beli to the State ag official recowds. (Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.) WINS PIE-EATING LAURELS who won the pie-eating champion test. SEEK 0 IDENTIFY . WOMAN IN RVER Two Disappear From Norfolk Boats—Son of One to View Body. Efforts are being made this morning to determine whether the ln in the Potomac River yeste y was that of Mrs. Beatric , 1408 Eighth street, who disappeared from | a hoat of the Norfolk-Washington line two weeks ago while en route to Nor- | folk or if it was that of Mrs. Laura Purvis, 48 vears old, 3162 Seventeenth street, missing from a boat of the same line when it docked at Norfolk yesterday morning. ‘The body is being held at an under- taking establishment in Norfoik, and Mrs. Purvis' son, D. R. P. Purvis, Georgetown University student, is on \mrolk to attempt to establish identity. Disappears From Boat. Saturday night Mrs. Purvis, who had been boarding at the Seventeenth | street address with her elderly mother, | Mrs. Alice Mills, ealth for several ¥ yuietly uld morning which there Sunda In th street, a a% found upon which “Nire “Please deliver She left minutes. she = s stateroom. room for a fe when che returned Mre. P disappeared It is believed that she jumped overboard shortly after § o sht. & hours docked, ody discovered floating in the keener of the Mathias house. A descriy gent 1o Washington Purvis’ s notified vinced that the body « Know 1 atte ihe U¥eane He Mrs ®on w was con 3! Fast Seen By he purser v found | and who had been | i not have sufficient funds | h | FINDS. DEATH ACCIDENTAL. }Coroner Issues Certificate in Case of Asphyxiated Man. Coroner Nevitt today rendered a certificate of accidental death in the | case of John T. Smith, 65 years old, momnr at 2025 Portner place, who was | asphyxiatea by iluminating gas. Po. |lice discovered that gas escaped from a defective fixture. The body was |found when John T. Wiegert, a fel- | 1ow employe at Ostmann’s meat stand |in Center Market, went to ascertain | the cause of Smith's failure | for work. Dr. Millard H. Ottman of Emerge | Hospitzl responded to an emerge |call. but life was extinc Smith, brother of the dec , rosid- ing in Camden, N. J., and a sister re- | siding in Middleburg, Va., were no- | tified. | PUBLISHERS ASSEMBLE AT VIRGINIA BEACH | Business Session Brief So Delegates Can Qualify for Golf Tourney. | By the Associated Pres NORFOLK, Va., October 31.—Pub- hers of newspapers reaching 80 per cent of the 120,000,000 population of the United States ‘and Canada met Virginia Beach for the R Bl nvestion of iHs Amt |can Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- | tion. to report cy y James ) the associ The busin tively fon was compara- brief s0 as to permit starting the qualifying of members for the ag- sociation golf ment on g links of the Anne Country | ce 1o lishers. Tonight ‘at 8:30 o'clock C Solbert's exclusive motion pictu the World War were to be =hown. — MRS. P. M. TYRRELL DIES. Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow at Daughter-in-Law's Home. Misx be Maria Tyrrell, 89 years t resident of this 1 Sanitori “hud the Church Swedenborgian be conducted iliness Hicember ton, rughter-in- wafternoon t will be in Glen- ter-dndaw, Mrs. vandchildren, " JOHN LUTHER LONG DIES. brooding for some G Marine Sergeant a Suicide. o suicide of Ser 1 of Bea Lick d to the Navy Depi Rrig. Gen. Smedley ng the 34 Mavine Miskell tovk bLis life yes @t Tientsin, port by mane Chir Author of Butterfly” Passes Away in Hospital. PHILADELPHIA 31 ) John Luther Lon of diame Batterfly v stories and died in it N. ¥ cording to u srum receiy i1 ot 1 “Madame October author oth pepital Mr. a lawyer d underwent urday arted vut 10 be a lawyer good practice efforts won him e slory of “Madame Mr. ind when fame Butterfly opera \us based. Long guve his ry He wrote t 1 Clifton | | for ton. an op- | here | nated $8.000,000. | Louis Adler Realty Company to Washin when has let a bui not more come of ity of $200 al day sessed from the present old_appraisers’ AND A GOOD TIME ALSO WAS HAD AT THE EDGEMOOR HALLOWEEN PARTY. The group of ha enjoyed all the other thrills of Halloween at the party Saturday on the lawn at the home of Mrs. J. R. U, S. LETS $8,000,000 Farmer Accuses Woman of Being Witch BUILDING CONTRACT, And Causmg German Plg Death Epidemic Erect Customs Court in New York. |in Or One of the largest jobs in the Go rnment building program on. mhoved forwara was learned the the contract for ercction of Wing in New York City to cost than £5.000,000 1o be States Custon: ores huilding W building tive 10 per imported thro to be appraised of today be t outside 2 it tl she Lody e, United the all merchindis 1 the buildi by December a day for each ad beyond this time will be as according to the contract, I The site of the huildinz is not far | Wil huild | ou 581 bounded by | Aux Hudson, West | uston strects. The property on the owned by the famous Trinity | Core block No. a special act of Con- 00,060,000 outside prozram | cited of Washing: | A special act of Congress, signed wreh 4 of this year authorized the casury to purchase a building « specific site for the purpose at a cost . mot to M Due to the necessity it for speed, begin work this weel kind, e he W h of the young pig which has just T s the liam el I | when she I salvation Army 1 for even s, former on which Puccini’s famous was believed that the contractor would | who served in France with the 26th Divisions asked ypsy woman vitch could be found. INHOLM, anoth for nc nt we itche: “the and 1l the p nd st en ‘the fir farmer's day s the witeh. ! l EGION WOMEN S HEAD WAS SALVATION LASSIE W. H. Wallb Nearly Under Enemy Guns in Arm dence of the RBOROUC H. Walll ected of the was litera hter of of thi i days was ser cou my re servi she told the “I know that my new job means than wa proud the women picked me.” w Ibridge lientenant head Ameri hut. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. BARK LOld World district between the | Sea and the Baltic they still believe witehes, after [pecn dvin An old pe Germany.—In_this| North er the pigs have ) apparent reason, man sald it must | advice of an_old she told them how pins in the village,” ick them into the <t house person_ who en- on the third | So they the pork On the gathered all the pins and became a pincushion. third day the farmer was on watch. A neighbor's elderly wife entered his gate. He rushed at her with a_broom and pitchfork and drove her away wi barrage of curs The woman and told the villagers the farmer was The two took the matter to court. an exciting trial they came t The judge declared | The woman is not a witch. 2 The furmer is not mad. But the villagers' belief in witch-| craft is just as strong as ever, dge Served | ny Hut., Assoctated Pross, iH, N. H.—Mrs, widge of Peterbor- of the Women's ! in Legion in ily “born to the William Mclntyre, e Salvation Army, under enemy guns ving soldiers in a Twice she was under fire. ce is of another Assoclated Press. e ve ever done, hard- r days. But I'm is the wife of a of machine guns CHRISTMAS PUDDING WILL BE ALL-BRITISH Empire Marketing Board to Urge Use of Products from Domin- ions in Recipe. Correspondence of the Ascociated Pr LONDON.—If the Empire Market- ing Board plans work out as they hope, everybody in England will make their Christmas pudding from a recipe drawn up by King George's chef. This calls for Australian currants and sultanas, Canadian apples, South African raisins and candied peel, New Zealand suet, West Indies sugar, Irish Free State eggs, Ceylon cinnamon, Zanzibar _cloves, Straits Settlement nutmeg, Indian. spice, Cyprus brandy, Jamaican rum,’ United Kingdom bread crumbs and flour. In addition Chef Cedard advocates the addition two quarts of old English beer, Sauce for the pudding will be made from Empire ingredients, England now has 2, mm radio re- s, colving sets, o gapat l;ry youngsters who bobbed arriss, 5510 Edge: r apples and oor lane. ington Star Phote. CLAIMANT IS DENIED INTEREST IN ESTATE Court Rules Against Mrs. Buten- hoff, Who Demanded Share in Bequest to Divorced Husband. w Justice Hoehling of the District preme Court today rendercd -an opi ion holding that Mrs. Winitred H. V Butenhoff of St. Louis, Mo., is not en- titled to a dower interest in one of the estate nuel to which her divorced hush, uet Tartley Wiheatley, hecame nun'lnl t 1 { Plaintiff velied on “the 3 J which retains the dower wife when the hushs Justice Hoehling dec while the District code permits the court to {retain dower, it does not attach to real estate acquired by the hushand subse quent to the divorce The record sh husband, at the time ‘of s a remainderman in fee fourth interest his e after the death of the widow of his fathor, The life did not die until December 7 some years after the divorce, and therefore there was no “siesin of the lands” in the divorced hushand during his marriage to the plaintiff. The suit was brought against Leon- ard W. Groomes as trustee of the es- tate of Samuel E. Wheatley and the beneficlaries of the estate. The de- fendants, through Attorney Joseph D. Sullivan, filed a motion to dismis: which was sustained by the cour PR XX AR Halloween Dance Postponed. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. COLVIN RUN, Va., October 31— On accpunt of the death Saturday of Cecil Altman, a_member, the School and Community League has postponed ;mm Wd:dnfm' yh:vengg ‘:iev Hal- loween dance to have been given at h Mmfl'um tonjsh e it but the d in corce, an un- o, R S a divorced § ed that the divorced | FOX BITES POLICEMAN. Animal’s Subsequent Death Causes Anxiety Over Wound. A young fox, pet of Policeman Clay Connell of the seventh precinct, sud- denly atiacked its owner about a week ago and bit him on the thumb of his right hand. The wound in- flicted was only a slight one, how- and but little attention was paid to it until two days later, when the animal _died, the conditions under death occurred suggesting the | possibility that it was suffering from | rapie ‘J'nlir(‘ surgeons are treating the wound. The animal’s body was turned to the Bureau of Animal Indu: Department of Agriculture, for examination, and it will be several days before the result of an examina- tion of the brain will be known, DE LUXE BUS SERVICE WILL START TOMORROW Capital Traction Inaugurates Line From Cleveland Park to Tenth and E Streets Northwest. The Capital Tracjion Co. today an- nounced the inauguration of their de luxe bus service from Cleveland Park at 7:40 a.m. tomorrow. The busses used will be similar in type to those used on the Chevy Chase de luxe line, with a seat guaranteed | to every passenger. The fare will be 25 cents per passenger. The busses will operate on a 20-minute headway. Following is the route announced for the bus: Beginning at Thirt fourth and Ordway streets northw south on Thirty-fourth street to Ga field street, thence to Woodland drive, to Calvert street, to Nineteenth street, S street, to Seventeenth street, to eet, to Thirteenth street, to E t, to the terminus at Tenth and B streets northwest. The busses will return over the same route except that between Thir- teenth and Seventeenth streets they will traverse K street instead of I street. MRS. A. M. HUNT DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS | Pioneer in Teaching of Trained Nurses Succumbs—Fu- neral Is Tomorrow. Mrs. Annie Murray Hunt, pioneer {in the teaching of trained nurses in! | this country, died at her residence, ! amont street, yesterday, after a = illmess. n the I in ch | conne a | in Philadelphia. She also had been in charge of a nurses' school in Cin- cinnati, and later was superintendent of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada. She had been€a resident of this city for the past 18 ! training school univ Mrs. Hunt was the wife of Frederick llunt a retired civil engineer. She urvived by her hushand, a grand- rs. Annie M. Hannay of this veral nephews and nieces G. in Scotland. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in| Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Social Note. From the Boston Transcrint, Exchange—"“The home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cleary was entertained by a thief last Frlday while they were &t the theater.” e en;hn»s Mrs. Hunt was ersity hospital | ciently COAST. Miss Dorothy 0'Hara, ip of Southern California at the recent Los Angeles food show, demonstrates the dainty fashion in which she “gets on the outside” of the ample pastries consumed in the con- (Wide World Photos.) DAVIS SEES END OF FLOOD PERIL Finds Mississippi Valley Pro- tective Work Almost Done. Calls on President. By the Associated Press. A personal inspection of the M spipi flood area during the last two weeks has satisfied Davis of the War Department that pro- tective work upon which the Governe ment is engaged will have r ed a status by January 1 at latest which will care for any normal flood: condi- tion during the Spring months. Mr. Davis called at the White House this morning. presumabiy fo give President Coolidge a first-hand report on what he had learned during his trip. He said later that he had been surprised to find that as a gen- eral rule recovery from flood damages along the river had progress rapidly than he had believed possible when he was over the same territory ffiuring the progress of the floods. Work Near Completion. Repairs to the levee breaks in | many cases will have been completed v December 15, the War Secretary id, and the levees at these points will be as strong and in most cases | stronger than they were before the unprecedented flood of last Summer. Work on co-ordination by Army engineers of reports from the six parate engineering boards which e studying phases of the flood con- trol prosram is progressing at a rate, Secretary Davis said, that insures presentation of a reasonable complete control plan project to Congress when it convenes in December. In some cases, he said, determina- tion of the exact location of spill- ways or reservoir sites or relief chan- nels probably must be left to subse- quent intensive engineering study. The general location of these flood control works under the plan, how- ever, can be indicated in the draft which will be presented to Congress |as soon as it convenes. Political Questions Feared. The chie by Missis- sippi Vall in flood av ly, Secretary i said, was that political questions mizht arise to embarrass the floud control | proposals or to clutter it with un- related items. He had noticed throughout the re- gion, he said, an increasing disposi- { tion to await the report of Arm engt- neers to Congress as the only I supon which contral plans of suffi broad foundation could be worked out. Five Forest Fires Checked. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 31.—The Fall forest fire season, held back two wee ‘by rains, opened Saturday with five fires being reported to the office of F. W. Besley, State forester, by deputy forest wardens. All iwere quickly checked. Three burned off stretches of timber land in Garrett County totaling approximately 70 acres. Two occurred in Dorchester County, with 20 acres of timber land being destroyed. . Same Trouble as Motirists. m the Boston Transcrivt. “So your friend the aviator has quit the business. Why's that?" * ‘Ioo many jay fiyers,’ he says.” A | Fro